A lot of countries also don't have very developed, sophisticated, or liquid equities markets. A lot of such countries, such as China, tend to have a culture of individuals investors using real estate as a form of savings/investment.
IIRC, REITs have outperformed the S&P 500 by 2-4% for the past decade on an annualized basis. A big part of the reason is leverage and the ability to borrow against real estate assets. Regular investors are highly unlikely to be able to buy a stock on margin with just 20% or less of the total asset value.
Let's say you buy a rental $1M rental property with 20% down ($200K) and then turn around and rent it out. In theory, that $200k is all the investor should end up paying themsevles, and the other $800K will be paid by the tenants. In 15 years, the investor owns a $1M asset (not accounting for asset appreciation) that also generates regular income that they only paid $200K for. They quadrupled their investment over the life of the mortgage.
This is a propaganda post from Big Ambulance, trying to increase the number of people who have to get taken to the hospital after slipping in the bathroom
I can't speak for Nigerians in the UK, but a lot of Nigerian immigrants in the US would be right at home in Reform UK.
You need to have a talk with your wife. Ask her how she would feel if you made her do an overly complicated handshake, including a chest bump, ending with saying "J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS" in front of her girlfriends. Maybe she will understand and learn some empathy.
Incorrect. My massive hog actually stuns home invaders when they see it, allowing me the time necessary to aim and mag dump on them.
I don't think episode is even out yet, just the first 3. I only watched the first episode of season 5 so far.
I am 75% of the way through the first episode of the new season of The Boys, and it feels like the show has finally jumped the shark.
Trump-Hogan is going over, brother!
Dear God, please send your strongest soldiers (Canadian geese) to deal with this demon.
I'm about to start my "Uhm..actually, Hamas saved Israelis from the Hannibal Doctrine by taking them hostage on 10/7 
" arc
(D) doing lamb acknowledgements before dinner.
Honestly there's probably a bell curve to the comments in terms of world news. If the nukes have been launched, I'm probably calling my family, not posting here lol.
The post 10/7 mega averaged ~42 comments/hour, for reference.
One of my least favorite incorrectly used terms.
Is this in Argentina?
https://www.ft.com/content/45abe561-a6cc-4058-b0a1-ecdc46a2d839
https://www.ft.com/content/30f96f4c-e5a6-452c-a283-265c558b0cf2
https://www.ft.com/content/4ff06aa6-b1bf-4e08-9b8d-aa42ee240c95
The first thing I would say is that business media covers things like this much better than something like NYT or WaPo because it has actual business/investor implication (FT is better than WSJ, though). The second thing I would say is that KSA dropping the petro-dollar is an order of magnitude more important than KSA joining BRICS, because BRICS hasn't really done anything.
What if, instead of going to Mars, we being Mars to us?